anchoret
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of anchoret
1735–45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling
Example Sentences
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Ammona lived with three thousand brethren in such silence as though he was an anchoret.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
An interregnum of twenty years followed his death, during which the country was governed by two wise men, Cuan O'Lochlann, a poet, and Corcran Cleireach, an anchoret.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Bede further states that this anchoret subsequently went to Frisland to preach as a missionary there, but he reaped no fruit from his labours among his barbarous auditors.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart
In narrow cave Worn from the rock, and roughly walled around, The anchoret made abode, with lonely hands Raising from one poor strip his daily food, Barley thin-grown, and coarse.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
With courtesy was Ráma met By that illustrious anchoret, And for one night he rested there Regaled with fruit and hermit fare.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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